Robert Dow

HP establishes a new category—detachable workstations

Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators When HP announced the new ZBook x2 series back in October 2017 they were not just introducing a new workstation but a new category—the detachable workstation. The ZBook x2 is a culmination of hundreds of hours of research by HP. HP talked to graphic designers, artists, photographers and Creative Cloud Users and … Read more

Eyetracking in StarVR’s next gen HMD

Foveated rendering in VR requires it Back in 2015 (it seems so long ago now), Software developer Starbreeze of Sweden and parts beyond acquired French VR hardware developer InfinitEye, which is now known as Starbreeze Paris.  StarVR offers a 210-degree horizontal field of view—the widest FOV in the world, Starbreeze says—and 5120 × 1440 resolution through dual 5.5-inch displays, at … Read more

AMD’s New Ryzen 5 2400G, smaller, faster, cheaper

Beats the competition in 11 out of 12 tests We ran a series of tests on a new AMD 4-core, 3.6 GHz, Ryzen 5 2400G (in a custom built Cooler Master PC) and a HP ProDesk Intel 4-core 3.4 GHz, Core i5-7500 PC and in 38 benchmarks the AMD had an average gain of 207% better performance. AMD Ryzen 5 … Read more

Qualcomm shows scalability

Introduces 700 platform, a subset of 800 platform for IoT automotive and embedded Qualcomm’s new 700 series is targeted at OEMs and the company claims it offers premium features, such as on-device artificial intelligence, in high-tier smartphones and can meet the ever-increasing demands of China’s smartphone ecosystem for more premium devices. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series offers … Read more

The add-in board market decreased in Q4’17 from last quarter; AMD gained market share.

Over $4.4 billion dollars of AIBs shipped in the quarter.  “The add-in graphics board market behaved seasonally in Q4'17, decreasing 4.6% sequentially, explained Jon Peddie, president of the industry’s research consulting firm Jon Peddie Research. The seasonal ten-year average for Q4 is -4.4%%, and this year it was just below that, which we think is due to the sharp rise … Read more

Jon counts all the pixels in the world

How many are there? 21 quadrillon pixels An old friend asked me, Hey Jon, how many pixels do you think there are in the world? TV’s, PC’s, smart phones, tablets. It’s going to be a lot!  But how many? Twenty-one quadrillion, six hundred and thirty-four trillion pixels in use today:  21,634,876,802,016,700.00 To start the analysis, I started with what was shipped … Read more

No disabled AMD GPUs in Dell XPS’

Move along, nothing to see here Well actually there’s quite a lot to see. One of the first companies to come to market with Intel’s new Kaby Lake multi-chip processor with HBM and an AMD GPU was Dell. With its thin, light, powerful as hell, and reasonably priced, pen-based XPS 15 2-in1sporting a 360-degree hinged 15-in 4K screen. A story … Read more

Acer and Nvidia BFGD

That’s Big-format gaming display if you were wondering Acer, Asus, and HP have taken AU optronics panels and made 65-inch large format 4k HDR gaming monitors, with 120Hz refresh rates 1,000-nit peak luminance and DCI-P3 color gamut. and Nvidia’s G-Sync technology. Acer showed its 65-inch Predator Big Format Gaming Display with Nvidia G-SYNC at CES, introducing big screens to PC … Read more